Hopalong Cassidy #17

Fawcett's long-running Western series puts William Boyd front and center on this 1948 issue, his steely gaze fixed forward as he crouches behind a rocky outcrop, pistol raised and ready — the tagline "Guns Roar! Fists Fly!" says everything you need to know about the tension inside. A circular inset at the bottom right shows a rider on a white horse, reinforcing the wide-open frontier spirit the series delivered month after month. With "The Hangman's Noose!" as the featured story, issue #17 promises the kind of gritty, high-stakes Western action that made Hopalong Cassidy a staple of the ten-cent rack.